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What's renew
Wind History
Building a better turbine
Potpouri
100
Wind power and renewable energy is good for this.
What is the environment?
100
The energy source produced by rapidly flowing or falling water from rivers or storage reservoirs.
What is hydro power?
100
When wind energy is used for producing food instead of energy, they are called this and not wind turbines.
What are wind mills?
100
It's not a fan but it is a supporter of the nacelle at its top.
What is a tower?
100
When an energy source doesn't deplete natural resources, it is called this.
What is renewable energy?
200
This is generated when the blades spin a shaft.
What is energy?
200
Answer this question and you will "shine."
What is solar energy?
200
These people used wind energy to drain lakes and marshes.
Who are the Dutch?
200
It spends its day spinning in circles but doesn't get dizzy.
What is the blades?
200
How wind is produced may be considered this type of energy.
What is solar energy?
300
One of Pennsylvania's largest developers and owners of wind projects. They have an office in Lawrenceville.
What is EverPower
300
You would think Chicago would be a leader with this renewable energy source. But it is not.
What is wind energy?
300
During the Wild West, settlers used wind to do this for their crops?
What is pump water?
300
It will tell you which way the wind blows.
What is the weather vane?
300
Wind energy differs from other energy sources because it doesn't need this?
What is water?
400
They used wind power to sail their ships on the Nile River over 5,000 years ago.
Who are the Egyptians?
400
This renewable source is hot, hot, hot.
What is geothermal energy?
400
In 200 BC, they were the first people to use wind to pump water.
What is the Chinese?
400
Comprised of concrete and steel rebar, it gets the turbine on solid footing.
What is the base?
400
When when is used for food production it is not a wind turbine but this.
What is wind turbine?
500
This refers to how much useful energy we can get from an energy source.
What is efficiency?
500
It's no longer correct to call this energy source garbage.
What is bio mass energy?
500
Its rise in price during in the 1970s cause a new interest in wind power?
What is gasoline
500
It is the home to the gears and generator.
What is the nacelle?
500
This is the minimum speed required for the turbines to spin efficiently.
What is 7 mph?